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This is a great time to be doing stupid things
Ten years ago, I built an ostensibly cutting-edge mobile robot from a kit. It cost close to a thousand dollars, required an attached laptop computer to operate it, and it never really worked. Sure, it...
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My office is too small for a mobile robot
The bot itself is pretty small, but it really needs room to move around. Each gearmotor has a slightly different friction threshold in the gearbox, so at low drive they don’t match up at all. At higher...
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Yet another tiny robotic car
Yes, it’s made mostly out of random parts I had lying around. That’s sort of the point: even if you had to buy all the parts, this thing would be cheap, and if (like me) you accumulate toy and...
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Belt and suspenders
I really like the idea of Yourduino’s RoboRed: gobs of 3-pin headers for almost all the arduino I/O pins, with n-tuplicated power and ground connections. Heavy-duty regulators built in for two amps of...
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Lasercar Lives!
I know it’s not much, but the new version is ready for coding. It knows how far it is from obstacles (in front), it steers, it goes forward and backward. And it does it all in python. Code and current...
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